China patches cracks in the Great Firewall ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

Posted onJune 4, 2013bypostroad|Comments Off on China patches cracks in the Great Firewall ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

The “June 4 Incident,” which the world outside of China knows as the Tiananmen Square protests, is a forbidden topic within the Great Firewall of China.

In recent years, Beijing’s enormous internet censorship program has taken aim at any words or phrases that could conceivably refer to the government crackdown that killed hundreds or even thousands of protesters in 1989. On the anniversary last year, there were reports that even mentioning the word “today” was banned.